Once There Were Wolves

Inti Flynn travels to the Scottish Highlands with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists. Their task is to release fourteen gray wolves into a remote stretch of land whose ecosystem is dying. Inti hopes the work will restore the land and also help Aggie, who has been badly damaged by secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.

Inti has been altered too. She has seen what people do to wild places and to one another, and she keeps her guard high. Then the wolves thrive, far better than anyone expected, and she begins to relax and even to consider falling in love.

That fragile peace ends when a farmer is found dead. Inti knows the local community will blame the wolves. Unable to believe they are responsible, she makes a reckless choice to shield them, and the choice carries risk for her.

The book is a literary mystery and an environmental novel in one. If the wolves did not kill the farmer, someone else did, and suspicion falls on the man Inti is growing close to, which tests her loyalties. The mood is tense and dark, with a strong pull toward the wild and a woman who may be consumed by the place that once sheltered her.